Gurmehar Kaur deletes Facebook account
JALANDHAR:GURMEHAR Kaur, the Delhi University student who shot to limelight last week after her Facebook post taking on the ABVP went viral, has deleted her account on the social media site.
After clashes erupted on February 22 on Delhi University campus over a literary fest at Ramjas College, the 20-year-old had changed her profile picture on her Facebook account, in which she was holding a placard with a message saying that she was not afraid of ABVP.
A student of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Kaur was sucked into the row after one of her older social media posts on her father, Captain Mandeep Singh who was killed in 1999 during the Kargil war, surfaced. “Pakistan did not kill my father. War killed him,” read a part of the post.
“I just gave my opinion, but things were blown out of proportion after. I had a really bad time. I am not in a state to talk about it anymore,” she had told HT.
Kaur alleged she was trolled and had received rape threats. She was panned across the board — from Union minister Kiren Rijiju and cricketer Virender Sehwag to Oylmpic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt and Haryana minister Anil Vij. On February 28, she pulled out of a protest march against Rss-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and even left Delhi for her hometown Jalandhar.
Kaur’s photographs with filmmaker Ram Subramaniam also went viral with people terming her an ‘Aaptard’. Ram, the founder of Facebook page Voice of Ram on which Kaur’s video promoting India-pakistan peace was posted in 2016, has close links with AAP’S national convener Arvind Kejriwal.
“The issue on which I spoke was blown out of proportion. I want to make it clear that I don’t want to get into politics,” Kaur said.
GRANDAD JOINS RALLY
On Thursday, Kaur’s grandfather, Kanwaljeet Singh, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to submit a memorandum to the deputy commissioner demanding justice for her. Scores of AAP members raised slogans against ABVP and came out in support of Gurmehar. Singh said that they have demanded security for his granddaughter and family and refused to say anything else.
Singh along with Sikh Talmel Committee, Jalandhar, on Wednesday had also called on the district deputy commissioner Kamal Kishor Yadav to submit a memorandum with regard to the threats issued to her on the social media.